Newsletter #5 Footprints
Working Group: Latinos in the United States
No. 5, July 2018
Bulletin of the Program of Studies on Latinos in the United States of the Casa de las Américas and of the Working Group on Latinos in the United States of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO)
Summary:
- Migrant children/U.S./Mexican/Central American indigenous children detained at the U.S. border.
- Mexican migrants/USA/Amnesty International calls on Mexico and the US to address asylum requests from the “migrant caravan”
- Young migrants/ Puerto Rico/ Judge rules against cancellation of DACA
- Opinion/ USA/ May Day
- Language / USA / When society punishes you for being bilingual
- Border violence/ USA/ A witness recounts the fatal Border Patrol shooting of a Guatemalan immigrant in Texas
- Migrant children/ USA/ Nearly 100 children separated from their parents at the border are in the Los Angeles area
- Migrant children/ USA/ USA does not know the whereabouts of 1.500 migrant children
- Social movements/ USA /Massive marches in the United States against Donald Trump's immigration policy
- Tribute/ Cuba/ Literature/ From the Forbidden, a tribute to Sonia Rivera Valdés
- Casa de las Américas/ Cuba/ Charting the course for Latinos in the United States
- Literature/ USA/ Martín Espada becomes the first Latino to win the prestigious Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
- Cinema/ USA/ LALIFF turns Los Angeles into a celebration of Latin cinema
- Music/ USA/ Latin music drives the streaming market in the United States
